Josh Rudolph
Josh Rudolph finished an MA in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at UBC's Institute of Asian Research in 2013, and was an editor at CDT English until 2021. He currently lives in British Columbia.
Translation: “As Long as We Survive,” by Fang Fang
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 3, 2020
The COVID-19 coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, Hubei late last year. After belated government acknowledgment of a public health crisis, authorities began an ongoing lockdown of Wuhan in January as the city and country at large...
Read MoreCoronavirus Censorship and Spin Draw Public Backlash
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Feb 27, 2020
Despite the lessons thought to have been learned after the 2002 SARS epidemic, Chinese authorities have been readily using censorship and propaganda amid the outbreak of COVID-19 novel coronavirus–which some see as a...
Read MoreHong Kong Bookseller Gui Minhai Sentenced to 10 Years
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Feb 25, 2020
Swedish citizen Gui Minhai is one of the five booksellers and publishers associated with Hong Kong’s Mighty Current Media and Causeway Bay bookstore who were detained from abroad in 2015 to reappear in custody in China. The...
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- FP China Brief – A Bad Week for Washington’s China Hawks
- CNN – China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems
- NED – China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree
- China Brief – Beijing’s War on ‘Negative Energy’
- China Media Project – Hubei Hit-and-Run Escapes the Headlines
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